3 ms·
Stack Overflow is useful, but a lot of that usefulness comes from its complete dominance of search results. By keyword stuffing in the sidebar (and last I check
by menacingly 10y ago
Stack Overflow is useful, but a lot of that usefulness comes from its complete dominance of search results. By keyword stuffing in the sidebar (and last I checked the nofollow links) they maintain a strong search presence for virtually every topic.
So, this position as top tech knowledge hub is sort of artificially propped up at this point. You type in your query, arrive at a page with something vaguely like the question you asked, are faced with pedantic flags about how the question you came to have answered is somehow unfit, and maybe some useful info. Also maybe some outdated info with real unaccepeted answers below it.
I'm not aware of another site that so heavily depends on content it itself seems to consider unworthy, siloed into so many vaguely overlapping sub-sites